At the outset, my delegation would like to thank your delegation, Madam President, for convening today’s briefing. We are especially honoured to have you presiding over today’s meeting. We would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Off…
We are grateful for the briefing by Mr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWAS).
We begin our statement by highlighting the work and efforts of UNOWAS, headed by the Special Representative. It is necessary …
We are grateful for the report presented by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission of Support in Libya (UNSMIL), Mr. Ghassan Salamé, to whom we reiterate our support for the outstanding work he continues to do. Similarly, we are grateful for the re…
At the outset, I would like to join my colleagues in welcoming the new Ambassador of Côte d’Ivoire and assuring him of our full support in his endeavours.
Bolivia regrets that the Security Council has not been able to maintain unity on this issue just when South Sudan needs it most. The gravity of …
I would like to welcome you, Madam President, and to commend the work that the Swedish delegation has been doing as President of the Security Council. I also want to welcome the presence of Mr. Eugene Philip Rhuggenaath, Prime Minister of Curaçao of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and to thank Deput…
We thank the Swedish presidency for organizing this timely meeting on peace and security in Africa with a focus on the women and peace and security agenda. We also thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, and the African Union Special Envoy, Bineta Diop, for their briefings and their comm…
At the outset, we thank Sweden for its leadership during the negotiations of resolution 2427 (2018), adopted today, which we had the pleasure of co-sponsoring and which undoubtedly provides a framework for the integration of protection, rights, welfare and empowerment of children throughout the conf…
Bolivia, as a State that believes in peace and promotes the culture of peace, has always advocated the resolution of conflict through negotiation, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement and preventive diplomacy, in accordance with the established purposes and principles of the Cha…
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Bolivia wishes to express its gratitude for the report presented by the Assistant Secretary-General for the Rule of Law and Security Institutions, Mr. Alexander Zouev (S/2018/623), and we also thank the President and the delega…
At the outset, my delegation would like to thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary-
General for Peacekeeping Operations, for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in South Sudan (S/2018/609).
With regard to the latest developments in the political arena, we highlight …
My delegation wishes to thank the Under-Secretary- General for Political Affairs, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, and the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, Mr. João Vale de Almeida, for their briefings. We also thank the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands, Mr. Karel …
We are grateful for the briefings provided by Mr. Staffan de Mistura, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and Mr. John Ging, Director of the Coordination and Response Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). We reiterate our full support for the work …
My delegation thanks Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General; Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under Secretary-General, United Nations Office of Counter- Terrorism; and Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
On behalf of my delega…
My delegation would like at the outset to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and the Russian presidency for having convened today’s very important debate.
We are gathered this morning at a time of roiling tensions across the globe, especially in the Middle East
and North Africa. Many con…
We would like to express our gratitude for the briefings by Special Representative of the Secretary-General Parfait Onanga-Anyanga; Mr. Bédializoun Moussa Nébié, Special Representative of the African Union to the Central African Republic; and Brigadier General Hermínio Teodoro Maio, Force Commander …
My delegation is grateful for the very informative briefing that we have heard from the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, on her twenty-seventh report pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005).
We have taken note of the progress made in investigations as well as of …
Bolivia thanks the Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, for his briefing on the situation in the Republic of Mali and developments in the activities of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) on the ground. We a…
We thank Mr. François Louncény Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, and Mr. Ahmad Allam-Mi, Secretary-General of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), for their informative briefings. We stress t…
We are very grateful for the briefings by the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Judge Theodor Meron, and the Prosecutor, Mr. Serge Brammertz. We take this opportunity to reiterate to them our strong support in the discharge of the duties that have been entrust…
I did not intend to take the floor again, but the assertions by the representative of Israel leave me no alternative. What I cannot permit is his questioning of Bolivia’s position with regard to terrorism. Bolivia will always condemn any act of terrorism, whatever the circumstances and wherever it m…
